Focus Question:  Who were the major immigrant groups that live in Massachusetts and where do they now live in large numbers (e.g., English, Irish, Italians, French Canadians, Armenians, Greeks, Portuguese, Haitians, and Vietnamese)?

U.S. Immigration, 1660 to 2009

Massachusetts Data 2021

U.S. Immigration by State and County

From Germany to Mexico: How America's Source of Immigrants Has Changed Over a Century, Pew Research Center (October 2015)

United States Immigration Timeline from Colonial Period to the Present from Library of Congress.

• Many immigrants came from Europe to Massachusetts for work opportunities

• Many Massachusetts citizens identify as descendants from these immigrant groups

Immigrants in Massachusetts

Immigrants in Massachusetts (2020)

• Nearly one in six Massachusetts residents is an immigrant, while one in seven residents is a native-born U.S. citizen with at least one immigrant parent.

Link here for a lesson plan on immigrants who came to America and then moved to textile towns, such as Lowell or Lawrence, Ma

Somerville Massachusetts: Who Lives There?

The truss bridge for the Somerville Community Path atop the Red Bridge viaduct in September 2020

Rosebud Diner, Somerville 

SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs, City of Somerville

Immigrants in Massachusetts and Somerville, 2010 to 2014

Sanctuary City

Massachusetts Has 8 Sanctuary Cities and Somerville is One of Them

 Should Communities Declare Themselves as Sanctuary Cities?

Immigration Station (1922)

East Boston Immigration Station

• Boston's Ellis Island

• This is where immigrants coming into Boston were welcomed or denied entry to the US.

Click here for a virtual book on the East Boston Immigration Station

The East Boston Immigration Station was denied landmark status and set to be destroyed